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Saturday, November 28, 2015

On the Latest Colorado Shooting

You hate to put it that way but during our gun epidemic we've many mass shootings in Colorado and of course, the first such shooting that really brought this to national attention was Columbine.

After an hours-long standoff inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic, police said Friday evening the gunman surrendered and is in custody. Officials declined to confirm whether there were any fatalities, but said in a news conference that 11 individuals, five of them police officers, were transported to hospitals for their injuries.

Colorado Springs police had exchanged gunfire with one male suspect inside the clinic before taking him into custody at 4:52 p.m. local time. Mayor Steve Bach confirmed there was "no continuing peril" after the man's arrest."

According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, one police officer and two civilians were killed in Friday's shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic, and nine more people were injured."

We know the drill-the NRA will tell us anything and everything is to blame but guns. Bernie will tell us to stop shouting.

Already Hillary Clinton is being attacked for 'exploiting' the attack

"Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was quick to exploit a shooting in Colorado Springs even before police have apprehend the gunman responsible for shooting multiple police officers and civilians."

It seems that for her to even say the words 'Planned Parenthood' is exploitation in this context. A bunch of Right wing trolls on Twitter feel she should stand with the other businesses in the area-that were;n't the target.

With ISIS, Democrats are wrong not to say 'Islamic terrorism' but here she's wrong for saying Planned Parenthood.

But of course, this is what makes this mass shooting different. It's targeting of PP. In the minds of Republicans you're not allowed to do anything about PP but spit. Gee, could this maybe be exactly how the killer felt?

And of course, what happened to PP is an ongoing war on a woman's right to choose, where many red states have basically ended it-as there are very few places a woman can get an abortion in the state. And all PP clinics and all doctors and facilities that offer abortion services are under the constant threat of what happened yesterday.

Whenever there is another mass shooting we are told we can blame anything but guns. But this will provoke and even more virulent reaction on the Right. There is such hatred of woman's right to choose.

In this case, the Right doesn't even want to acknowledge what happened. Not one of the 14 GOP candidates have even commented on what happened. Rubio was saying 'Gee, just stay warm and buy some of my wonderful merchandise.'

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